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1an.
a tract of forested land the bounds of which have been established by the government, which leases or sells the rights to fell and remove timber.
Quotations
1854
No timber limits are without water--for it is by water alone that the timber can reach its market, and wherever there is or has been water, there you are sure to find Beaver meadows.
1896
Now a timber limit is a fortune without touching it with your hand.
1961
The practice of the government was to grant "timber limits" or "berths" to lumbermen by yearly licences or leases for a longer period.
1bn.
a tract of forested land suitable for commercial lumbering; a stand of timber.
Quotations
1890
A Journal of this city is greatly agitated lest, by disputing our timber limits and other assets, the Ontario Government shall bring the province to direct taxation.
1909
. . . he imparted full and valuable information in regard to Wakota, its possibilities as a business centre, its railroad prospects, its land values, its timber limits. . . .
1960
. . . A Blackfoot Indian band in 1892 surrendered a timber limit in Alberta.
2n.
on a mountain, the line beyond which trees do not grow.
Quotations
1898
The whole valley and slopes to the timber limit are clothed with cotton-wood, spruce and alder trees.
1905
Soon I found myself alone, passing through the sparse, stunted trees that verge the timber-limit, and approaching a wide, verdant upland.
3n.
the line north of which trees do not grow; the line where the Barrens begin.
Quotations
1914
We want to get as far north as the timber limit. . . .
1936
The timber limit is the boundary line between the Indian and the Eskimo.